Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 6

B R R & R TYTYE $-J-& =% = o BEEMCTOsfowe | 5.8.3 23oaRess f THE OMAHA DAILY BLE " FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER : VICTOR ROSEWATER EDITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY PROFRIETOR _ Entered t Omaha postoffice as second-class matter TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier per month. Daily and Sunday...... Daily without Sunday. Evening snd Sunday.... Evening without Sunday. Sunday Bee only . 20e Daily and sundu‘ Bee, ti s in advance, 81 Send notice of change of address or irregularity in de- livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. iy REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or Yo-ul order. Only2-cent stamps taken m payment of small mecounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha and eastern exchange, not accepted. OFFICES. | Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2318 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln—626 Little Building. Chicago—81¥ People’'s Gas Building. New York—Room 808, 286 Fifth avenue. St. Louis—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—725 Fourteenth atreet, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. 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Bee the was Note that the foot ball style of wearing the hair is coming for a return season. — The war is still young enough to make and break masterful military reputations, e— This street corner talking, at any rate, saves the hall rent money for other campaign dispen- sations. —— It's a wonder no one has as yét proposed to submit the farm bank locations to a popular ref- erendum. | { What has become of the fellow who predicted that the great European war would be over in October? | The doclorl'muy console themselves with the weetly solemn thought” that there are others also worrying about dead head bills. | | 1 A Chicago speculator is said to have clearfed up $1,000,000 on wheat. Evidently the farmers did 'not harvest all the cereal money. | A new war credit received the unanimous vote of the French Chamber of Deputies. When Mars wields the gavel silence of knockers makes for safety. Chicago bakers are putting out a G-cent bread loaf instead of a S-center or a 10-center. We thought we were once told here in Omaha that it couldn’t be done? i | | Wit the doctoys and the hotel men expound- ing the fundamentals of health and happiness, all ' Omaha is put in the proper condition to give Ak-Sar-Ben the hot and jolly hand, & — The democratic outlook in Nebraska justi- fies the hurry call for Tom Marshall to enliven " the campaign. Mr. Marshall is the administra- _tion's joker par excellence. Any means of lighten- _ ing the gloom is to be welcomed as a humane _ measure. ~ Descriptions of the new armored tractor creat- jln. havoc on the west front are varied and un- _satisfactory, A veil of mystery envelopes the _killer. When the returns are all in, it is barely possible the whereabouts of the steam roller of 1912 will be cleared up. — ? The official reporter of General Trevino's “victory” at Chihuahua is wasting superior tal- ent on a vrifling job. His demonstrated ability fits him for a lofty perch on the Alps, the Bal- kans or the Carpathians, where the range of vision offers unlimited exercise for hot stuff. Of course, everybody who “chips in” to the genator's campaign fund is a self-sacrificing *!riot. while everyone who contributes to the tepublican treasury is a, self-seeker or a greed- grabber with an unworthy purpose. If you don't believe it, read the senator's own personal news- paper organ, ‘. By way of reminding the less fortunate of their superior grade of happiness, Charley Schwab says that riches are a positive burden which makes the pleasures it will buy a round of weariness. Still, the Bethlehem captain of ’; industry shows no desire to cast off the burden *% and put his “war babies” on the bargain counter, it — h A Wage Raise Law 'rfl Kansas City Star : The Adamson law is furnishing Governor tin Hu(hgl and the republican campaign speakers on material for a. strong attack on the president and I to my " Lot Fo his administration. Undoubtedly it is one of the vulnerable points in the record of the last four years. It was, as Senator Underwood, democrat, frankl{ admitted in the senate, not an 8-hoour law. It was a law to increase wages. When this statement was challenged in the senate the sen- ator replied: & If the senator would go and consult with ' ‘any of the gentlemen who represent the em- ployes, and who have been contending here in " this matter, they would tell him candidly, as they told me, that the guestion is a ques- tion of wage; that they are not contending ' for an elght-hour day, that a man shall work . only eight hours; they do not want that. 1f it had been an eight-hour law it would have ovided against working men more than cight urs except in emergencies, and it would have | penalized these emergencies by providing for - extra pay for overtime. . The law was enacted under compulsion. Con- gress was given hours to pass it under penalty of o disruption of the ¢ountry’s business, and con- areu and the president performed. Legislation obtained in that way is undemocratic and bad, whether it is enacted for a small group of privi- ‘leged interests—as has happened in the past— or for a larger group of workers. ~ Th was a surrender to force as against ., It may be that legislation is neces- to create machinery for enforcing arbitra- decisions. But the hope of society in in- strial disputes is in arbitration instead of force, as the hope for nations is in arbitration in- ad of war, The president’s action in forcing ¢ Adamson law was a heavy blow to the canse trp! peace. THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY “Coercing Congress.” “The charge that congress was coerced 1s just as bad. No labor body made any de- mands upon congress. No labor leader ap- peared before a congressional committee and asked for any legislation whatever. To pre- vent a strike that would have resulted in mil- lions of loss to every part of the country, per- haps in starvation to thousands in the cities, the president, withot any solicitation from labor leaders, made certain recommendations to congress and that body adopted one of them, which resulted in preventing a strike. No co- ercive or any other sort of influence was brought to bear upon congress by the labor unions."—World-Herald. As a distortion of fact, that is certainly rich, rare and racy! After the labor leaders had cither coerced or frightened the president with their threat of a general strike that would tie up all the transportation machinery of the country un- less their demands for wage increase were im- mediately acceded to, the president went to con- gress with this club in his hands and coerced or frightened the democrats, as well as a few repub- licans in the house, into passing the force wage- increase law as the only alternative to the threat- ened strike if that legislation were not on the statute books before the clock ticked off the designated hour. If this was not coercion, what was it? Of course what the president really did was to transmit the trainmen’s demands and threats to congress with his own endorsement coupled with a personal requisition upon the democratic majority to deliver the goods as ordered. And what does such coercion of congress mean? An answer may be found in this quotation: “If senators and representatives coming to Washington allow their hands to be tied by a caucus or permit the president to instruct them how to vote, representative government fails Those who elect senators and representatives have the right to instruct them how they shall vote, and no one else. The independence of congress cannot be maintained if individual senators and representatives give way under presidential influence and surrender their leg- islative consciences and individual judgments into his keeping.” No, gentle reader, the sentiment here expressed is not original with The Bee. It is taken from a declaration made by and printed over the sig- nature of Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock at a time when the president was trying to coerce him with the whip of withheld patronage. He and his paper talked differently then than they do now when, in order to “hitch on” to the Wilson cart, he has surrendered his independence and sub- mitted his judgment to what he then denounced as “presidential usurpation.” Secretary Baker and the Army. Secretary of War Baker may have been a good lawyer and a sucessful mayor, but one of his present utterances is apt to lead folks to think he is a democratic politician first of all. He says he doesn’t believe the report that Gemeral Bell made in regard to the latest of Villa's raids on Chihuahua. It is quite easy to understand that Mr. Baker would be chagrined, that after all the president’s futile efforts to check his activities, this favorite among the outlaws should suddenly dash into the chief city of the state that is sup- posed to be carefully guarded against him, defeat the bumptious Trevino seize Carranza military supplies and retire in safety, But it will not help the case for the secretary of war to express his doubt as to the accuracy of a report made by a general of the army. After he becomes a little better acquainted with the service he will find that the officers of our army habitually tell the truth, and that their official reports are founded on facts, regardless of how those facts affect the political aims of the secretary of war. —_—— Wilson's Muddling in Mexico. A correspondent asks that The Bee shed a little more light on the secret intrigues carried on by President Wilson in his dealings with Mex- ico. Whatever may be said on the point at this time will be largely repetition, for until either the president or one of his personal envoys breaks silence it is not possible to tell on exactly what terms he undertook to bargain’ with the Mexican banditti, It is certain, however, that while he did not openly discredit the official and recognized representatives of the United States in Mexico, he sent thither on secret errands his personal messengers, and has kept for his own guidance the word they brought back to him. What prom- ises he made to the outlaws is not known, nor what pledges he sought, but it is known that John Lind was in constant touch with Carranza and Zapata—and if Huerta is unspeakable, what will we say to Zapata’—William Bayard Hale carried on the negotiations with Villa, and later our own Richard Lee Metcalfe visited Carranza. The official dispatches from Washington to Nelson O'Shaughnessey, our charge d'affaires at Mexico City, support the allegation that John Lind was informed that Huerta must be driven from the country, if not by domestic means, “other means, adequate for the purpose, will be resorted to.” The invasion of Mexico and the capture of Vera Cruz was the “other means, ade- quate for the purpose.” Huerta refused to be cither bluffed or bullied, and so force had to be used. All this was going on while our president was publicly protesting that his policy was to “watchfully wait,” allowing the Mexicans to settle' their own affairs in their own way regardless of how long it” took. We do nat blame the democrats for their at- tempts to gloss over this chapter of their admin- istration's record. It is the most glaring example of inefficient and officious meddling in the affairs of another people presented in all the history of the country. Mr. Wilson will not be permitted to escape the responsibility of his muddling in Mexico. Good Advice from Kansas Governor, " In his first address of the present xampaign Governor Capper reviews the local needs of Kan- sas, in his own efforts at administration and out- lines his future plans with some suggestions as to what is really needed for Kansas. Much, he larly this: “Our need is not more laws, but greater respect for those we have” He also says: “We constantly mike too many laws. We actually have need of very little new legislation, and it should be constructive legislation.” In this regard Kansas is typical of the United States, and of each of the states. We need but few laws, and they should be well considered, carefully worked out and designed for the 'stimuy- lation and encouragement of the constructive im- pulse of the people. Our law-making habits need repression. “The eager and nipping air” of fall mornings { Toses its punch in the presence of a full fuel bin. | M Alexine says, will apply as patly to Nebraska, particu- | | | Pure and Impure Milk Literary Digest Most of us know little about the milk we buy. We seldom see the man who delivers it, and we never see the middleman from whom he gets it. | As for the actual producer—the man out on t farm—he is enveloped in an obscurity from which he never emerges. He may be clean—or very much to the contrary. His stables may be spot- | less, his cows carefully washed, and his em- | ployes beyond cavil. Or he may regard all the. precautions as simply a waste of time and money. | These considerations are emphasized by Dr. John H. Kellogg in his paper, Good Health, in an article entitled, “Who's Your Milkman?” Somewhere in the small hours of the morn ing, says Dr. Kellogg, therc is a rattle of wagon- wheels on the hard pavement, a tremendous clat- tering of heavy feet up the back porch, a rattle of bottles as they are deposited on the floor, and a clattering of steps away again. And that is all most people know about the milk they drink. He goes on: 3 “We pay dearly for our indifference concern- ing the source of the milk which we buy. We pay for it in tuberculosis, we pay for it in typhoid fever, in colic, and other diseases which attack our children, especially in the summer. Why, all of these diseases can be wiped out of existence, so0 far as milk is concerncd, the moment people study the milk which is delivered to them with alf the care with which men scrutinize the cigars they buy, and women the chocolates they con- sume. . “Clean milk, obtained from clean cows kept in clean stables, collected in clean receptacles, and distributed in clean vessels, is the choicest of all the infinite products of the laboratory of nature. “Dirty milk, corrupted with gleanings from sources of pollution, is a veritable poison-cup, and is doubtless responsible for the lngs nf ~t least nine-tenths of the 300,000 infant lives that every year arge sacrificed to ignorance anu neg- lect. \ “for it iv a well known fact that the germs as- sociated with putrifying filth are the most pro- lific source of the intestinal disorders which an- nually carry off so many thousands of infants during the summer months. “These same putrefactive germs are likewise the cause of colon-poisoning. Entering the body through the medium of milk, they take up their abode in the colon, where they grow and multi- ply to the extent of hundreds of billions daily, producing poisons which, when absorbed into the blood, give rise to an a'most infinite number of distressing symptoms, and to serious and even fatal diseases. “Milk must be free from the germs of dis- ease. In addition to the common germs that gi rise to putrefaction, milk may contain germs of various specific diseases, such as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, sore throat, etc., diseases originally derived from hu- man beings suffering from the above-named dis- osders and with the germs of which the milk, by direct or indirect contact, becomes contami- nated, “Milk may also communicate to human be- ings various disorders that originate in cattle, but which may be communicated to human beings by making wpe of the milk of sick animals, such as foot-and-mouth disease, gastro-enteritis, an- thrax and rabies. Modern research has shown that bovine tuberculosis is communicable to hu- man beings. According to Rosenau, it must be conceded that not less than 5 to 7 per cent of all cases of human tuberculosis is due to infection from the use of infected milk or the flesh of tu- berculosis animals.” A precaution in summer, urged by Dr. Kel- logg, 18 to make sure that milk is uncooked. He is not in favor of what is called pasteurization— that is, heating to a temperature of 158 degrees Fahrenheit—which he régards as ‘destroying cer- ain valuable properties. The boiling of milk modifies in a harmful way nearly all its ingre- dients and considerably reduces its nutritive value. Further: “Man has been defined as a ‘cooking animal, and for ages the culinary art has been highly cultivated and made the means, not only of util- ity, but of harmful luxury. “Through modern scientific research, we are coming to know that notwithstanding its great service to the human race, the art of cookery has associated with it many perils, one of the greatest of which, though the most recently rece ognized, is the destruction of certain vital ele- ments, which so modify the food as greatly to impair its nutritient value, “Milk, fresh from the bovine font, with its rich store of vitamines and enzymes, with the finest' quality of protein for brain and muscle building, salts to stiffen-the bony framework and to brighten the vital fires of the body, is a nat- ural product. “Not only is it not improved by the art of cookery, but it is actually damaged by it and rendered incapable of supplying in the highest* degree those subtle elements which are essential to good nutrition, “A word should also be said about how to take milk. It should be eaten, not swallowed as a | beverage. “All foods need to be masticated. The calf and the nursing infant chew milk.. The move- ments of the jaws and the sucking movements »xecuted by an infant in nursing induce an abun- dant flow of saliva, which, mixing with the milk, properly dilutes it, and to a high degree promotes s digestion. “Milk when swallowed rapidly as a beverage is likely to form in the stomach large and hard | & curds, which are very slowly digested. Many | persons who suffer from taking milk in this way | imagine themselves to be unable to take milk, | and so abandon its use. “Milk should be sipped slowly and with a sucking movement of the throat, so as to secure a liberal admixture of saliva, By this means the formation of hard, indigestible, curds may be prevented. “Milk also must be taken in right quantities | and in right combinations. [t cannot be denied that milk digests better when taken by itself or | in very simple combinations than when mixed | with a large variety of other foodstuffs. . “In some instances a large quantity of milk | is more easily digestible than a small quantity. | When the stomach produces a large amount of | highly acid gastric juice, the curds formed when a small amount of milk is taken will be large | and tough w!eren: if o tareer amount of milk is ch, the curds formed will be smaller and also softer, “It is, of course, impossible for the stomach to make gastric juice that is at once suited far the digestion of meat and for the digestion of | milk. “When milk is largely used as a nutrient, the rest of the diet should consist chiefly of fruits and vegetables for the reason that milk contains an excess of lime and is deficient in potash and soda, which are neces¥ary for perfect human nu- trition, The last-nanied elements are abundant | in fruits and vegetables, and particularly so in the potato.” ¢ I People and Events I The heliograph, although largely superseded by wireless telegraphy, is still largely used by the British military forces on the frontiers of India and in South Africa, where the air is clear and signals can be seen.for long distances. A ceremony unique in religious history in this country, and perhaps in the world, tdok place recently at the Nazareth convent, the mother house of the Sisters of St. Joseph, at La Grange, Il Mrs. Pauline Gosselin, a widowed mother of 74, entered the novitiate and received the holy habit of the order from her daughter, Mother , SEPTEMBER 23, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. The best doctors in the world are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quict and Doctor Mer- ryman.—Jonathan Swift. One Year Ago Today in the War. Greece mobilized in reply to Bul- garian mobilization. Russians reoccupied Lutsk, in Vol- hynia, capturing 128 officers and 6,000 men, Germany reported that a new allied army had arrived to attack the Dar- danelles. Italians pounded Austrians in the Dolomites with heavy artillery. Berlin announced French attack at Souchez was repelled. : In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Markel & Swobe have taken out their old elevator system, which, for water alone, costs them about $200 per month, and substituted the latest Hale invention The second season of the Parnell Social club wi inaugurated at Cun- ningham'’s hall. The officers of the association are as follows: Master of ceremonies, J. J. Lloyd; floor commit- tee, J. K. Fitzmorris, 8. E. Collins, W. Franklin, J. E. Price; door commit- tee, B. Maher, J. M. White, J. F. Con- way, Lo Connolly; reception com- mittee, J. Connolly, F. Kane, E. J. Flynn A large boiler to be used in heating the Nebraska National Bank building got away from the men and slipped with such velocity that two men were AlmesSt crusned ana the barber pole of 1. Stein, whose shop is in the base- ment of the building, was broken from its fastenings and the fancy cathedral glass lantern crushed into a’ thousand fragments, The West Davenport Furniture company has purchased ground in Omaha and will start a branch estab- lishment here employing about 150 men. W. 1. Kahn has arrived in the city from Bradford, Pa. and intends to locate and go into business in Omaha. Dr. E. W. Lee has gone to Ogallala to attend his brother, who was thrown from his horse while trying to rope a steer. The Rev. Willard Scott and wife, having returned from their summer vacation, were tendered a reception by the ladies of the St. Marys Ave- nue Congregational church in the church parlors. f This Day in History. 1803—In his first great battle Well- ington defeated the Mahrattas at Assaye. 1806—Lewis and Clarke exploring expedition returned to St. Louis. 1816-—Elihu B. Washburne, secre- tary of state under Grant and min- ister té France during the Franco- Prussian war, born at Livermore, Me. Died in Chicago in 1887. 1854—Russians sank seven ships of their Black Sea fleet to block the har- bor entrance to Sebastopol. 1866—King of Hanover protested to the BEuropean powerg against the en- forced annexation of his kingdom to Prussia. . 1869—University of California opened at Berkeley. 1870—The French began a series of desperate ineffective sallies from Metz. 1881—Train left Washington for Cleveland bearing the remains of President Garfleld. . 1889—Wilkie Collins, distinguished novelist, died in London. Born there January 8, 1824. 1891—President Harrison appointed a commission to fix the true boundary between the United States and Mexico. 1898—Chile and Argentina agreed to submit their boundary dispute to arbitration, thus averting war. The Day We Celebrate. Meredith Nicholson, author, is just 50 years old today. By nativity he is a member of the Hooser school of fictionists. Omaha flgures as the scene of one of his novels, “The Main Chance,” and his marriage with the daughter of the late Herman Kountze has made him a frequent visitor here. novelist and A. L. Reed, president of the Byron ! Reed company, was born September 23, 1865, in Omaha. He succeeded his father In his pioneer real estate firm and was one of the executive committee managing the famous Omahg exposition. ddward M. Martin, lawyer, is 45 yvears old today. He was born in Delafield, Wis.,, and was educated at lowa college and the University of Nebraska. Dr. . O. Robinson, physician and surgeon, is just 51 years old today. He graduated in medicine at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh and is also a past aduate of the medical school at Chi- cago. ) ’ ldward Updike, vice president of the Updike Grain company, is cele- brating his seventy-sixth birthday. lie was born in Dutchneck, N. J., and was in the banking and grain business at Harvard from 1882 to 1902, when he removed to Omaha Edgar N. Bowles, clerk of the Omaha postoffice, was born September 23, 1865, iIn New Hampshire. He has been in the postal service since 1891, Dr. Halmer H. Bryn, Norwegian minister to the United States, horn in Norway fifty-one 'vears ago today. Willlam R. Leigh, noted maga and book illustrator and “painter the Tar west, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, fifty years ago today. Dr. Sidney E. Mezes, president of the College of the City of New York, born at Beloment, Cal, fifty-three years ago today. Dr. Willlam De Witt Hyde, presi- dent of Bowdoin college, born at Winchedon, Mass., fifty-eight years ago today. Charles (Heinie) Wagnper, former inflelder, now coach of the Boston American league base ball team, born in New York thirty-five years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Jeventy-one years ago today the first base ball organization in this country, afterwards known as the Knickerbocker Base Ball club, was formed in New York. President Wilson' is to make his firsi speech of the campaign at Shadow Lawn this afternocn to the business men of New Jersey. An exhibition of rare coins valued at many thousands of dollars. is to be a feature of the annual convention of the American Numismatic society, which is to begin its sessions today in Baltimore. Delegates from many parts of the United States and from foreign coun- tries will assemble at Toledo today in anticipation of the opening of the conventiom of the American Board of Foreign Missions. When Charles E. Hughes, repub- lican presidential candidate, speaks in Indianapolis tonight Charles W. Fair- banks, the candidate for vice presi- dent on the same ticket, will preside Yes, It Had “the Once Over.” New York, Sept. 21.—To the Editor ¢, s fajse if he is at all posted. of The Lee: 1 wrote you a letter sev- eral weeks ago signed Staunch Amer- ican, and not having heard from you as yet I am writing again. In my let- ter 1 mentioned shaving with the first stroke of the razor, an up-stroke on the right side of the face, and I said that the American people should addpt shaving this way as a national custom. Shaving this way is nothing new to you perhaps, but how many of your readers know about it? It was them that I wanted to reach and deliver my message to. 1 gave a description of the effect that shaving this way has upon a man's characteristics. I am firmly of the opinion that shaving this way is the master-key that will unlock the door to happiness for the American. I am sorry you did not print my letter. I think I know just about where that letter was consigned to after you had given it the once over, but I assure you there is no ill feeling on my part. With best wishes for your heaith, and the success of your enterprising paper, I wish to remain. J. FRANK FLEMING. 260 West 129th street, + Politics in the Land Bank. Lincoln, Sept. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 have read with much dis- gust two interviews or statements purporting to come from the advance agent for the meeting of the farm land board to be held in Omaha soon. I take it that you have given this no personal attention, but am sure that when you do a stop will be put to the use of your columns by the demo- cratic administration appointees for political purposes. 1 desire to call your attention to the two articles relative to the purpose of the board. In one article it is stated that they desire to have all the farm- ers possible in attendance at this meeting and from them they would Jearn direct whether it was true, as intimated, that loan been charging a commission in addi- tion to' the interest on farm loans. The manner of putting the proposi- tion was such as to cause the unin- formed reader to think board was going to uncover some- thing of a shady and illegal nature. vantage of one of your reporters, and has set up a straw man, painted him a briliiant black and when the board holds its meeting -thig man will be torn to pieces with much gusto amid rounds of applause. This is wrong. Loan companies have always charged a commission. That is what they are in the business for; and that is their remuneration for the work that they do in procuring from the eastern in- surance company the loan for the farmer. The total commission that the farmer pay. to his local banker is divided between the Omaha broker and the banker on a basis arranged between them. This is legitimate, honorable business, and there is ab- solutely no secret about it, and this Mr. Wilson well knows if he knows anything about the farm loan busi- ness. For a man in the position Mr. Wilson occupies to cause such mis- leading statements to be published is prompted by one of two things—he either knows the present movement will be a failure unless he can appeal to the prejudices of the farmers, or he is doing it for political purposes. In his statements he also says that this law will help the tenant farmer, and gives an illustration of how a man with $2,000 can borrow $5,000 from the farm loan bank, pay the $2,000 he has and borrow on a second mortgage the remainder, $3,000, with which to complete the payment on a $10,000 farm, from any loan com- pany. This is absolutely false, and he knows it if he is at all posted. Farm loan companies will not con- In my letter | companies had! that this| Mr. Wilson has taken an undue ad-| sider second morigages and the only | way a farmer can secure a second mortgage is from some private party who has Intimate knowledge of the | man and the land, and then at an ad- vanced interest Mr. Wilson |loans are costing 6 to 16 per cent. te. also states that farm the farmer .from He also knows this We |are negotiating farm loans for our | Madison county farmers, on the Kind | of lands the farm loan bank would | approve if they are managed con- | servatively, at an interest rate of 5 | per cent payable either annually or | gemi-annually, with options to pay | on any interest paying date, for from | tive to ten years' time, and a com- | mission charge of from % to 2 per | cent on the face of the loan. The | scheme of the administration forces |is to make the interest rate not more than 6 per cent, and then the “joker” | comes in. They require the farmer to |leave 5 per cent of his loan in the | bank as a stock investment, which he | does not know that he will ever see | again. This is to be held out of the | proceeds of a loan which. on Mr. Wil- | son’s illustration, would be $250. This I'of course is not a “‘commission.” Com- | paring this with the present ten-year | loan we are making for a commission | of $100 it will readily be seen which form is the cheaper, even if the gov- ernment plan makes the interest rate | b per cent. 1 did not intend to enter into a dis- | cussion of the fallacies of this pro- | posed farm loan movement, but I do want to impress upon you the fact | that the columns of your paper are | being used in a manner that is very distasteful to your informed repub- lican readers, and that\this man Wil- son is causing to be printed state- | ments that are misleading and repre- ‘hensib!e, to put it the mildest way ‘possible‘ H. E. M | Dormitories to Cure Fraternity Evils. | Omaha, Sept. 22.—To the Editor of The Bee: I very much regret that in | vour editorial the other day on “So- | rorities and Scholastic Standing” you | did not call attention to the well | known fact that the scholastic aver- age of fraternity students is in every institution lower than the average of nonfraternity students, so that those who go to the university for an edu- cation will know that they stand a | better chance of success outside of | fraternities and sororities, and so that parents may also know the true facts | in the case. There is not an eduoator of standing ‘n the United States who would recommend the establishment | of sororities and fraternities in edu- cational institutions where they have not already been introduced. To live in a fraternity house cosis the parents from $150 a year upward more than when students live on the outside. Fraternity life offers more induce- ment to neglect studies than to excel in scholarship. The average young man enters the university a non- smoker. Every fraternity man I know without exception acquires the habit of smoking and, incidentally, this i among the least objectionable habits he acquires. Fraternities and sororities establish an artificial barrier of caste founded on money, and it makes for class dis- tinction. The sr bbish assumption of superiority on the part of the sorority and fraternity members causes heart- aches and leads to much discourage- ment among bright and promising students who cannot afford to belong. The cure for the fraternity evil is the establishment of dormitories where students may be housed to- gether under the rules and regula- tions of the faculty. This leads to the development of that true college spirit of equality and fraternity which is one of the main things to be learned by the young man or woman whe goes away to school and materially reduces | the cost of living. 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